006 clutched his wound and slunk toward the compartment opposite Instructor Ke. That room seemed specially designated for treatment.
Lin Lianxue glanced at the scorched, tattered clothes on 006 and worriedly tugged at Yue’s sleeve. “Xiao Yao, if you can’t hold on, just raise your hand to signal. There’s no need to tough it out like him.”
Hearing that, 006’s staggering steps paused for a moment, but in the end he did not turn back.
Ah, Yue understood that feeling quite well.
Despite possessing extraordinary power, the first assessment had only earned such a score. It was quite a blow.
After all, every Chosen One fantasized at the start that they were the most special one.
Yue headed straight for the training ground.
Instructor Hu hesitated, then spoke up again in reminder. “007, the field can be changed.”
“No need, Instructor Wei.” Yue did not even turn his head. His clear, cool voice echoed through the training ground. “Whether the field is changed or not makes no difference to me.”
The area outside the field fell silent for a few seconds.
“Damn… so pretentious?” 005 sucked in a breath of cold air.
“Hmph, just smashing the cracked pot. He won’t last more than a few seconds anyway, so changing the field really doesn’t matter.” 002 continued to sing the dirge.
“Ten seconds, no more than that.” 004 said with lingering fear. “Level five difficulty was already terrifying. Even though I can fly, I only lasted three minutes.”
001’s gaze lingered on the wristband on Yue’s wrist. “A first-realm Chosen One. If it were a powerful elemental type, there might be a sliver of a chance to break the situation.”
“But if it’s a physical type…” He shook his head and did not continue.
“Still, 007 seems pretty cute. I’d really like to see her cry.” 003 licked her pink lips.
The watching newcomers chattered away. This time Instructor Hu did not stop them.
Because Yue’s earlier remark had truly been too arrogant.
Precisely because he himself was also a physical type, he understood the limitations of physical-type Chosen Ones all the better. When he had taken the assessment back then, he had been the highest in the entire venue at the third realm and could already create his own [Heaven-Chosen Item]. At that time he had also been this wildly arrogant.
Yet even after reaching the third realm, he had only lasted half a minute under level-nine difficulty.
The reason he had not chosen level ten was that levels before nine still allowed for error tolerance. Only losing the ability to resist counted as the end. Level ten’s rule was that the moment the body was grazed by even one barrage shot, it was an elimination.
That density of barrage was fundamentally designed as a stress test for rule-type Chosen Ones.
As for other types of Chosen Ones, one could only say they should stay wherever it was coolest.
Instructor Hu glanced at Mu Bai sitting at the edge of the field, his brows tightly furrowed.
Sister Mu could not possibly be unaware of what level ten meant. Even if the goal was to shatter this child’s confidence, this method was far too harsh.
He let out a rough sigh.
So be it. An ignorant brat would only realize how arrogant his earlier arrogance had been after being beaten into a complete mess.
“007!!”
Instructor Hu roared, the sound shaking several nearby trainees’ bodies.
“Test begin!!”
The instant the switch was pulled, the cluster cannon barrels on the surrounding walls and ceiling, resembling Gatling guns, immediately began to rotate.
Yue stood in the center of the field. Gazing at the posture of several thousand cannon barrels aimed at him, he suddenly felt a bit of dread.
In the previous level-three difficulty for 006, the barrels had still been one by one, and the number had only been a few dozen. At his own level-ten difficulty, the training room’s appearance had already changed drastically.
Facing these rows upon rows of pitch-black muzzles, she only wanted to say…
Is this hell?
If she truly only had [Void Insight], she would probably have been beaten until not even slag remained.
Outside the field.
Instructor Hu leaned against the entrance, nerves taut.
To ensure the trainees’ safety, the first round of fire for level ten was only about one-tenth the intensity. The moment anything went wrong, he would immediately stop the project.
Mu Bai stood up, staring at Yue’s golden hair strands, her body leaning slightly forward.
Lin Lianxue was also poised to charge in at any moment.
She had already decided that no matter what Xiao Yao thought, the instant the other was struck by the barrage, she would immediately rush in and release [Heaven’s Blessing].
Although she really wanted to see her defeat CG, there were too many eyes around. Such a good thing was better enjoyed privately by herself.
Under the pressure of the heavy cannons, the watching trainees no longer spoke much.
A group of boys and girls had originally had no ill intentions; they simply disliked the special treatment the other received.
Talk was talk, but it was still a living life after all.
Moreover, the fact that the other could accept the challenge without changing expression even with so many gun barrels pointed at her already inspired a certain admiration.
The next second.
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!
Dozens of rounds of cannon barrels simultaneously began pouring out firepower!
Dozens of elemental spheres of different attributes wrapped in from all directions.
Yue activated [Void Insight]. His formidable eyesight threaded through the dense barrage, accurately and unerringly locating the harsh blank spaces within the crossfire.
The light-blue skirt hem swayed. The girl merely took a few steps forward, her indifferent face still bearing that little ice-mountain expression of not caring about anything.
The fastest lightning-element spheres shot over rapidly. Azure-blue electric light intertwined in a sheet, yet the girl simply stood quietly in the dead angle of the trajectory, as if situated at the center of the world, brushing past all those crashing, falling barrages.
The trainees outside the field uniformly let out low sighs.
Among them, Lin Lianxue’s voice was the loudest.
“Looks like visual enhancement.” 001 pushed up his glasses. “But to be able to apply it to this degree, she really has some skill.”
002 was still unconvinced. “Hmph, it just happens to fit her Heaven-Chosen Skill.”
“……”
Unlike the trainees’ somewhat relaxed state, Instructor Hu’s expression remained grave as he stared at the girl in the center of the field. The palm resting on the pull rod instead clenched a bit tighter.
If these cannon barrels were only firing ordinary, straightforward bullets, then he would have relaxed.
But what they were firing was!
More than ten kinds!
With vastly different flight speeds!
That would also trigger chain reactions with one another!
Elemental!! Barrage!!
In the first round of fire, the lightning element, being the fastest, landed on the ground first and was no big deal.
But what about the second round of fire?
The first round’s water element had landed on the ground and formed puddles. When the lightning element then struck down, it would no longer be as simple as just standing in the trajectory’s dead angle to dodge.
Aside from the electrified ground formed by water + lightning,
there was also metal + lightning attracting lightning,
water + ice freezing,
fire + water steam explosions,
wood + wind + fire combustion spread,
mudslide storms, ice-and-fire dual heavens, water-light shockwaves…
Instructor Hu recalled his own past, when he had naively thought level nine was merely more types of barrage and greater density, and could not help but mockingly laugh twice.
Even at level nine he had only held out for less than half a minute.
Level ten, where a single touch meant elimination?
A first-realm physical type?
What kind of joke was that.
He looked toward the center of the field.
The barrage above the girl’s head, because the elemental spheres of different attributes had different speeds, many had already collided and merged together, exploding in midair and interfering with the flight trajectories of other barrages.
The interfered barrages then interfered with other barrages—
The butterfly effect.
In this way, the safe zones within the field could change at any moment.
Sure enough, several elemental spheres that had deviated from their original routes soon came attacking toward Yue’s position.